From: Joerg Faschingbauer <jfasch@aon.at>
To: charlet@ACT-Europe.FR
Cc: jfasch@aon.at, rth@redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use of -fPIC on Tru64
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011218205324C.jfasch@aon.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011218001347.B6541@dublin.int.act-europe.fr>
> > The Linux dynamic loader implements loading non-PIC code. What you
> > lose though is sharing of text pages because text has to be patched
> > then.
>
> What does this have to do with Tru64 where position independent code is part
> of the ABI ?
>
> I appreciate and understand the motivation on systems such as Linux, but
> Tru64 is very different in this respect, and I still haven't seen a good
> argument to enable -fPIC on Tru64 for libgcc.
The message I replied to was something along "There are
implementations where you do not need PIC to load a shared library, so
there is no need to require PIC". You didn't say anything about Tru64
(though you did in a previous message), and I was nitpicking. Kind of.
Joerg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-18 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-13 1:35 Arnaud Charlet
2001-12-13 1:44 ` Richard Henderson
2001-12-13 3:35 ` Arnaud Charlet
2001-12-13 9:26 ` Richard Henderson
2001-12-13 9:40 ` Arnaud Charlet
2001-12-13 9:49 ` Richard Henderson
2001-12-13 9:57 ` Arnaud Charlet
2001-12-17 11:54 ` Joerg Faschingbauer
2001-12-17 15:22 ` Arnaud Charlet
2001-12-18 12:12 ` Joerg Faschingbauer [this message]
2001-12-18 14:03 ` Arnaud Charlet
2001-12-18 12:45 ` Jeff Sturm
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